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Persecution of Minorities: JewsHow is the Jew
depicted in this poster?
Anti-SemitismHostility to or prejudic
against Jews
Persecution of Minorities: JewsJews blamed for all
of Germany’s problems:WWI DefeatTOVWeimar GovernmentHyperinflationGreat Depression
1933: Nazis called for national boycott of Jewish businessesHurt Jews financially and to separate them
from the rest
Persecution of Minorities: Jews
1934: Marking of Jewish shops with Star of David of ‘Juden’ (Jew)Businesses and properties taken awayJews also deprived of their professions,
especially those in the civil service
Persecution of Minorities: Jews
1935: Nuremberg LawsThe exclusion of Jews from German society
by depriving/stripping them of German citizenship
Jews not allowed to marry non-Jews
Persecution of Minorities: Jews
Night of Broken Glass (1938)Nazis looted and destroyed Jewish shops.
Home and synagogues were burned. Jews were attacked and killed and many were sent to concentration camps.
Persecution of Minorities: Jews
The HolocaustLiquidation of Ghettoes The ‘Final Solution’
The systematic extermination of JewsDeath marches, gas chambers, working to
death
Persecution of Minorities: Jews
Gypsies, homosexuals, the handicapped, and the disabled were persecutedRegarded as inferior and as social
parasitesThreats to the ‘purity’ of the Aryan
race
Persecution of ‘Undesirables’
Eugenics and Euthanasia Promoting ‘Racial hygiene’: The strong
and racially pure were encouraged to have more children but the weak and racially impure had to be neutralised
Persecution of ‘Undesirables’
Persecution of ‘Undesirables’ Eugenics and
Euthanasia Laws instituted
against these groups – to control, authorise arrests and even sterilise them
Many also sent to concentration camps and eventually gassed in large chambers
Under Weimar Government:Right to voteEquality in marriage and civil matters – held
political positions and roles in civil service
Women
WomenUnder Nazis
Confined to being mother and spouseBelief that women served
nation best by being good wives and mothers
Excluded from politics and academics – after 1933, women ceased to hold seats at Reichstag
Under NazisNazis made girls undergo vigorous training in
domestic tasks – farming and sportsIndoctrination attempts to organise women’s
affairs according to the Party line
Women
Results?Policies were oppressive The importance of women to building a strong
nation was acknowledged and women saw Nazi policies as a means of establishing an identity for themselves
Women
The Hitler YouthAims
To ensure that the German youth would grow up to be loyal to the Nazi regime and to be willing to fight for it
To serve as a youth counterpart to the SA
To groom youths (14-18) to be future leaders in Nazi organisations (e.g. SS and the army)
MethodsIndoctrination in Nazi ideology and anti-
SemitismPhysical and military training emphasised
instead of academicsSubdivision for boys aged 10-14 created
The Hitler Youth